Combined ash pan and sifter.



0. V. DAME.

COMBINED ASH PAN AND SIFTER.

AP PLIOATION FILED DBO. 26, 1911.

Patented Dec. 10, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES VANCE DAME, 0F LANARK, ILLIN 01$.

COMBINED ASH BAN AND SIFTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES VANCE DAME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lanark, in the county of Carroll and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Ash Fans and Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a handy combination ash pan and sifter adapted for use in connection with stoves, latrobes, furnaces, and the like.

The invention involves primarily an outer pan or receptacle containing therein a sifting device or receptacle which is prevented from displacement from the pan by suitable means but which is movable therein and carries a movable sifting bottom adapted to support the ashes and unburned fuel in the pan until a convenient time for performing the sifting operation.

An especial object of the invention is to provide means of the above class of an extremely simple and practical construction capable of being produced at a co1nparatively small cost, within the means of those persons who would ordinarily have use therefor.

For a full understanding of the present invention, reference is to be had to the following description and to the accompanying,

drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan View of a combined pan and sifter in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a front end view showing the upper portion of the end of the pan broken away. Fig. 8 is a section taken about on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section taken about on the line 44l of Fig. 1.

Throughout the following detail description and on the several figures of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like reference characters.

In the drawings, 1 denotes an outer receptacle or pan which may be of a form corresponding to ordinary ash pans, some of which are used in connection with stoves and would otherwise be of a shape or form adapted to fit into the ash compartments of the special type of stove or furnace with which the invention will be used. I do not therefore wish to be limited to any special general form for my invention because it would doubtless have to be made difierently for different types of heating apparatus.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1911.

Patented Dec. 10,1912. Serial No. 667,619.

Within the pan 1 is arranged the sifting receptacle 2 comprising the bottom 2 and the body portion, the latter being formed at its upper and lower portions with beads or rib-like projections 3 and 4, respectively, preferably pressed outwardly from the metal from which the receptacle 2 is made and located on all four sides of the same. The pan 1 is adapted to be supported by the legs 5 so that when the pan is in the ash compartment of a heater, the bottom of the pan will be spaced from the bottom of said compartment. Projecting inwardly from two or more sides of the pan 1 are lugs or stops 6, the purpose of which will appear more fully hereinafter.

The bottom 2 of the sifting receptacle 2 is of foraminous material, such as screen, or the like, and said bottom is preferably loosely mounted upon the receptacle 2, being primarily supported by brackets 7 of somewhat L-shape, the lower ends of said brackv .ets being secured to the bottom 2, and the from the sides of the receptacle 2 extend through the slots 7. The size of the foraminous bottom 2' is such that it may move upwardly in the receptacle 2.

Applied to opposite sides or ends of the reoeptacle2 are handles 9 arranged below the upper projections 3adjacent thereto and adapted to be housed between the adjacent port-ions of the parts 1 and 2 when the latter are not being used for sifting purposes. A bail or handle 10 is employed to enable the pan and sifter to be readily carried, said handle being attached to the pan.

The side or end of the pan which is outermost when this device is arranged in the ash compartment of a heater is formed with a pivoted door 11 adapted to open downwardly and normally held closed by the pivoted catch 12.

In actual use, it is contemplated that the device, as shown in Fig. 1, shall be arranged in the ash compartment of a heater so that, as the ashes drop from the grate, they will be received by the receptacle 2. A cover 13 is provided for the receptacle 2 but is arranged beneath the pan 1 when the device is in the heater. When it is desired to perform the sifting operation, the cover 13 is placed upon the receptacle 2, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and the combined device is removed from the heater with the ashes contained in said receptacle 2. To sift the ashes, it is only necessary to raise the receptacle 2 sufliciently toenable the operator to grasp the handles 9, whereupon a vertical agitating movement may be imparted to the receptacle 2 within the receptacle 1, such vertical movement being limited by the stops 6 that operate between the ribs or projections 3 and 4. In the vertical agitating movement of the receptacle 2, it will be apparent that the sifting operation is facilitated by a vertical movement of the foraminous bottom 2 in saidreceptacle 2, the latter vertical movement being allowed by the pin and slot 8 of the receptacle from the pan but permitting of relative movement of said parts.

2. A combined ash pan and sifter comprising an outer pan, a receptacle movably mounted therein consisting of a body and a foraminous bottom movably mounted thereon, means for preventing displacement of the receptacle from the pan but permitting of relative movement ofsaid parts, and separate handles carried by the pan and receptacle.

3. In a combined ash pan and sifter, the

receptacle in the pan.

4. In a combined ash pan and sifter, the combination of an outer pan, a sitting receptacle therein having a movable bottom,

members coacting with the pan andreceptacle for supporting said receptacle with its bottom spaced from that of the pan and also permitting of limited movement of the receptacle in the pan, and a door mounted on the pan opposite the space between its bottom and that of the receptacle.

5. In a combined ash pan and sifter, the combination of an outer pan, an inner receptacle, spaced projections, lugs on the side portions of the pan and engaging with said spaced projections to limit the movement of the receptacle in the pan and to prevent relative displacement of said parts, handles car ried by both the pan and inner receptacle, the inner receptacle having a foraminous bottom and brackets secured to said bottom and having pin and slot connections with the inner receptacle permitting movement of the bottom within said receptacle, and a door on the pan adjacent to the bottom of the latter.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES VANCE DAME.

Witnesses ARTHUR E. CURTIS, HARRY S. LOWMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

